We versus me: Indirect conditional effects of collectivism on COVID-19 public policy hypocrisy

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bok ◽  
James Shum ◽  
Jason Harvie ◽  
Maria Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
Conditional Effects ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
The Individual

PurposeDuring the early SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated masks “may not protect the wearer, but it may keep the wearer from spreading the virus to others”. Health officials revised mask guidelines to include both the wearer and others, but contradiction became a focal point for online debate and credibility. While revised policies eventually became adopted by the public, there was loss time and lives during this critical stage. This study investigates collectivist messaging on public policy support.Design/methodology/approachCOVID-19 public policy hypocrisy was defined as the gap between supporting community policies while rejecting policies more likely to impact the individual. United States participants (N = 1,605) completed questionnaires. Moderated mediation analysis was conducted using SPSS PROCESS.FindingsThose high on collectivism and high on global personal impact associated with lower COVID-19 public policy hypocrisy. These individuals indicated consistent support for community and individual policies, likely requiring personal sacrifices. Indirect conditional effects of lower conscientiousness associated with higher hypocrisy among those collectivistic.Originality/valueParticipants evaluated preference to original public safety ads, representative of basic societal and individual benefits. Those higher on collectivism preferred societal “we” versus individual “me” public safety ads. Implications discuss benefits of personal and communal public health messaging in an individualistic society so businesses can reopen. Entrepreneurs experienced major economic setbacks that effective public health policies could have mitigated.

scholarly journals For a public policy of surveillance of suicidal behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (suppl 5) ◽  
pp. 2343-2347
Author(s):  
João Fernando Marcolan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Surveillance Program ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Global Problem ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Intervening Factors

ABSTRACT The object is to reflect on the need for effective implementation of a surveillance program of suicidal behavior and of the causal and intervening factors of suicide, as well as to training and qualification of health professionals about this topic, and the profile of the individual with suicidal behavior. Suicidal behavior is public health serious, global problem and it should be faced in a consensual way by public administrators, professionals and population. Suicide is a real, current catastrophe and a kind of death that can be avoided.

scholarly journals When work kills

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Waters ◽  
Marina Karanikolos ◽  
Martin McKee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Contractual Relationship ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the rising public health phenomenon of workplace suicide drawing on comparative insights from the French and UK contexts. France has experienced what the media describes as a “suicide epidemic” in the workplace, with rising numbers of employees choosing to kill themselves in the face of extreme pressures at work. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a comparative approach drawing on insights from the French context, in which workplace suicide is legally and officially recognised, to shed critical light on the UK context where workplace suicide remains a hidden phenomenon. Findings Whilst in France, workplace suicide is treated as an urgent public health phenomenon and data on suicides are collected centrally, in the UK, despite a deterioration in working conditions, suicide is not recognised in legislation and data are not collected centrally. Unless society recognises and document rising workplace suicides, we will be unable to deal with their profound human consequences for suicidal individuals, their families and society more widely. Research limitations/implications Research on workplace suicides in the UK and many other national contexts is hampered by fragmentary statistical data on this phenomenon. Practical implications The paper calls for greater recognition, analysis and monitoring of workplace suicide in the UK. Suicide should be included in the list of workplace accidents that are reported to the authorities for further investigation. In a context where workplace conditions are deteriorating, society need to recognises the profound human costs of these conditions for the individual employee. Social implications The paper has important implications for the contemporary workplace in terms of the contractual relationship between employer and employee. Originality/value Workplace suicide is an urgent, yet under-researched phenomenon. The paper brings a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective to bear on this phenomenon.

scholarly journals Modern epidemiology and its discontents

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 984-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Rochel de Camargo Jr ◽  
Francisco Ortega ◽  
Claudia Medina Coeli
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Core Set ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Styles Of Reasoning

The goal of this article is to present a snapshot of an ongoing debate within epidemiology, pitching opposing sides in the struggle to define the path it should follow in the years to come. The debate among epidemiologists in the mid-90s pitted those who defended the idea that epidemiology should necessarily deal with a wide context against those who believed that science and public health are better served by focusing on the individual level. Ian Hacking’s concept of styles of reasoning was used as a theoretical tool. The literature was reviewed using a core set of articles as an entry point, seeking articles that cited them, and then back-tracking the citations of the resulting set in the Scopus database. The main arguments are presented according to levels (ontological, epistemological, axiological and pragmatic), in order to show an even deeper disagreement, in the very conception of science and its relation to social issues and public policy.

Getting nowhere, going elsewhere: the impact of perceived career compromises on turnover intentions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Human Resource Managers ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Career Compromise ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Conditional Effects ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to investigate the unexplored relationship between employees' perceptions that they have made compromises in their careers (i.e. perceived career compromise) and their turnover intentions, as well as how it might be moderated by two personal factors (materialism and idealism) and two contextual factors (abusive supervision and decision autonomy).Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were collected among employees who work in the education sector in Canada.FindingsEmployees' frustrations about unwanted career adjustments lead to an enhanced desire to leave their organization. This process is more likely among employees who are materialistic and suffer from verbally abusive leaders, but it is less likely among those who are idealistic and have more decision autonomy.Practical implicationsFor human resource managers, these results provide novel insights into the individual and contextual circumstances in which frustrations about having to compromise career goals may escalate into the risk that valuable employees quit.Originality/valueThis study contributes to human resource management research by detailing the conditional effects of a hitherto overlooked determinant of employees' turnover intentions, namely, their beliefs about a discrepancy between their current career situation and their personal aspirations.

Building Effective Public Health and Public Safety Collaborations to Prevent Opioid Overdose at the Local, State, and Federal Levels

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-252
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Carroll ◽  
Rita K. Noonan ◽  
Jessica Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Response Strategy ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
Local Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Drug ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Effective Public Health

This chapter describes the public health role in the Overdose Response Strategy (ORS), a public health/public safety collaboration between the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mission of the ORS is to reduce opioid overdose incidents by developing and sharing information about heroin, fentanyl, and other opioids across state and federal agencies. In addition, the ORS supports states in implementing evidence-based strategies to combat the opioid overdose epidemic, especially where those strategies are informed by local data. Teams comprising one drug intelligence officer and one public health analyst work in each of the 24 ORS states. Challenges and opportunities of public health and law enforcement collaboration are described.

Poems and pancakes for alcohol harm reduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-171
Author(s):  
Andrew Misell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Asset Based Community Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Alcohol Harm Reduction

Purpose Programmes to promote alcohol awareness and harm reduction in the general population often take an atomised approach, encouraging individual drinkers to understand their unit intake and adjust it accordingly. Although many public health practitioners harbour doubts about the value of this approach, few clear alternatives have emerged. The purpose of this paper is to provide such an alternative. Design/methodology/approach Alcohol Concern’s Communities Together project was rooted in the idea that drinking patterns can only be understood in their social context. It was an attempt to take seriously Harold Holder’s injunction to “cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol problems”. The project applied Asset-Based Community Development methods, handing a large degree of control over to the participants, drawing on their own talents and enthusiasms, and recognising their autonomy and their authority as experts in their own lives. Findings The project outputs have been described as “community development with an alcohol twist”. They included a range of activities and events that created inclusive and non-judgemental spaces for people to think about alcohol and draw their own conclusions. It was also a lesson in humility for those of us who like to consider ourselves as the experts in public health: we had to learn that we did not have all the answers to questions about other people’s lives. Practical implications The project indicates that community development may be a valid alternative to more traditional and more didactic approaches to alcohol harm reduction. Originality/value The project may provide an innovative and flexible model that could be applied in various communities in order to address alcohol misuse in an engaging and undogmatic fashion that helps people take more control of their own lives.

scholarly journals Mask Use During COVID-19: A Social-Ecological Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-155
Author(s):  
Allison R. Casola ◽  
Brianna Kunes ◽  
Amy Cunningham ◽  
Robert J. Motley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Ecological Analysis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Government Mandates ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
The Individual

To limit the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued recommendations that individuals wear face masks in public. Despite these recommendations, the individual decision to adhere and wear a mask may not be a simple decision. In this article, we examine the decision to wear a mask from a social-ecological perspective. Through critical analysis of societal, interpersonal and community, and intrapersonal influences, it is clear that the decision to wear a mask is multifaceted and influenced by constructs including public health recommendations and government mandates, racism and cultural norms, geography, household income, age, and personal attitudes. Understanding the multifactorial influences on mask wearing during COVID-19 is crucial for informing the creation and distribution of inclusive public health messaging regarding mask wearing now in the midst of an unprecedented health crisis, and in future unforeseen public health emergencies.

Crisis communication adaptation strategies in the MM&A train explosion in Lac-Mégantic downtown

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc D. David ◽  
Marie-Eve Carignan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Dead Zone ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Crisis Management Plan

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with the adaptation of communication strategies set out in the pre-crisis plan implemented by the members of Quebec’s public safety authorities in the specific case of the rail explosion and fire that destroyed the downtown of Lac-Mégantic in July 2013. Design/methodology/approach Based on a triangulation approach combining three qualitative methodologies, namely in-depth interviews, analysis of communication artifacts, and news analysis, this research aims to determine how public safety authorities used the existing crisis management plan at the time of the Lac-Mégantic crisis. It also seeks to determine whether or not the crisis managers used emergent communication strategies, as defined by Mintzberg (2007). Finally, the case study also seeks to identify potentially unforeseen contextual elements that influenced the communication strategies deployed. Findings The analysis reveals that the disaster, whose magnitude and consequences were unprecedented in Canada, prompted those in charge of public safety to review the established crisis management communication strategies and practices in order to adapt to the realities of a particular terrain and context. It is important to mention, first, that the crisis was managed in an unforeseen context of a twofold digital divide that created a dead zone for emergency and public health messages; and, second, that direct communication with the victims revealed major difficulty in understanding such messages (literacy). As a result, the traditional and digital communication strategies established in the crisis management plan had to be rapidly reviewed in order to incorporate “old-fashioned” communication tools, such as giving out information door-to-door, meeting with people on their front porches, and holding informal street gatherings with public health doctors and social workers to better communicate messages to the disaster victims and to promote the adoption of safe behaviors. Originality/value The findings demonstrate that in a crisis and emergency context, communication efforts must sometimes deviate from the planned strategies and come back to simple, direct, and “human” communication methods in order to adapt to the realities of the victims.

Natural resource profits and the implications for Peru's public health system

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 392-400
Author(s):  
Mark Fafard ◽  
Rob Haley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health System ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Natural Resource Extraction

Purpose – The Peruvian Canon system was designed to collect a percentage of taxed profits from the country's natural resource industries and redistribute these funds into communities that are important to the natural resource extraction process. However, these communities often lack significant basic resources, such as adequate public health facilities and basic medical supplies. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This analysis focusses on the political and economic factors within Peru's Canon distribution system and proposes public policy strategies that could more effectively ensure natural resource profits reach extraction zone communities. Findings – Policymakers should consider the implementation of policies that require a transparent Canon collection and distribution system. Policies should be developed that mandate an adequate percentage of Canon funds for investment in Peru's public health system. Research limitations/implications – A significant portion of the available literature on local conditions within natural resource extraction communities and systematic empirical data available are lacking. Originality/value – This analysis can lead to the development and implementation of public policy that more effectively targets improvements throughout Peru's natural resource communities.

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